tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post114786652312008585..comments2016-12-09T17:12:45.472-05:00Comments on In the Middle: "an albino, ful pale and straunge to se"Jeffrey Cohenhttps://plus.google.com/110433684739546897626noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1148041426131368552006-05-19T08:23:00.000-04:002006-05-19T08:23:00.000-04:00"Irritable medievalist" seems redundant.Alison's r..."Irritable medievalist" seems redundant.<BR/><BR/>Alison's review is indeed harsh, and very well written (favorite lines: "Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is the most unforgivable book you'll ever see being read on the L train." "I hate that he makes false claims for his scholarship, only to slap his readers' faces for being so credulous.") The comments posted afterwards are, however, often frieghtening.J J Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1147995487837446172006-05-18T19:38:00.000-04:002006-05-18T19:38:00.000-04:00Ah! another review, this one from my Intended. Jus...Ah! <A HREF="http://onepeople.org/bookstealers/archives/000876.html" REL="nofollow">another</A> review, this one from my Intended. Just passing it on.<BR/><BR/>I hope the irritable medievalist to whom she refers is K. the G. M. and not, say, Mr. Shadow.Karl Steelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12848215331692228040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1147961392223638592006-05-18T10:09:00.000-04:002006-05-18T10:09:00.000-04:00From the NYT review of the film, by A. O. Scott:Is...From the NYT review of the film, <A HREF="http://movies2.nytimes.com/2006/05/17/movies/17cnd-code.html" REL="nofollow">by A. O. Scott</A>:<BR/><BR/>Is Christianity a conspiracy? Is "The Da Vinci Code" a dangerous, anti-Christian hoax? What's up with Tom Hanks's hair?<BR/><BR/>Luckily I lack the learning to address the first two questions. As for the third, well, it's long, and so is the movie.J J Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1147957684882665362006-05-18T09:08:00.000-04:002006-05-18T09:08:00.000-04:00This explains why in the Harvard Faculty Club the ...This explains why in the Harvard Faculty Club the men's restroom has a big tub of Jiffy Hair Straight 'n' Flow. <BR/><BR/>As careful readers of this blog realize already, I do not believe that it is possible to be a serious academic without Great Hair.J J Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1147903124979591962006-05-17T17:58:00.000-04:002006-05-17T17:58:00.000-04:00Wait a minute -- you mean they did that on purpos...Wait a minute -- you mean they did that on purpose? *shudder*anhagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773335756057041042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1147881243632009272006-05-17T11:54:00.000-04:002006-05-17T11:54:00.000-04:00other problematic representations:entertainment we...other problematic representations:<BR/><BR/>entertainment weekly did a special feature on tom hanks hair in this film... apparently they needed to develop a special gel that would straighten it so that he would have the "flowing" hair of a "harvard professor." eh?hdnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1147874249831812092006-05-17T09:57:00.000-04:002006-05-17T09:57:00.000-04:00!!J J Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1147873790452634052006-05-17T09:49:00.000-04:002006-05-17T09:49:00.000-04:00Here's something you might not have known:"'The D...<A HREF="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_05/008825.php" REL="nofollow">Here's </A> something you might not have known:<BR/><BR/>"'The Da Vinci Code' will be the 68th movie since 1960 to feature an evil albino."<BR/><BR/>The blind and deaf probably attract pity (which is, we know, just this side of contempt), whereas albinos for some reason--they're uncanny?--probably are by and far the disabled most often depicted as villains.Karl Steelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12848215331692228040noreply@blogger.com